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Eilean Donan Castle
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2744
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2744 (2744)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kintail
- National Grid reference
- NG 8812 2583
- Latitude
- 57.27397
- Longitude
- -5.51611
- Altitude
- 5 m
Form and condition
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- vitrification
Landscape
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- built-up land and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1921); Other (1966); Other (1974); Other (1998); Excavation (2008); Excavation (2009); Excavation (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7575
- HER
- Highland HER MHG45372
- National record
- record NG 82 NE 3; monument 11823
- Wikidata
- Q31099913
Sources
References
- Field Archaeology Specialists Ltd (2008) 'Eilean Donan Castle, Highland (Kintail parish), geophysical survey, topographical survey and evaluation'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 9 (2008), 110
- Field Archaeology Specialists Ltd (2009) 'Eilean Donan Castle, Highland (Kintail parish), excavation'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 10 (2009), 104
- Field Archaeology Specialists Ltd (2010) 'Eilean Donan Castle, Highland (Kintail parish), watching brief and excavation'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 11 (2010), 98
- Wallace, T (1921) 'Archaeological notes'. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 8 (1921), 109